Meet The Team
We are a team of vision scientists, optometrists, engineers, and programmers. Our mission is to bring recent technological advances in virtual reality and eye-tracking to optometrists, vision therapists, and other clinicians, enabling them to provide improved clinical outcomes and engaging therapeutic experiences to patients with vision disorders.
FOUNDERS
John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli M.S.
Chief Executive Officer
John Vito is a virtual reality developer and biomedical engineer. His work in virtual reality has made it practical to automate optometric assessments and therapies in virtual space.
Mitchell Scheiman O.D., Ph.D., FCOVD, FAAO
Chief Medical Officer
Mitch is a true thought leader in optometry. He has coordinated multiple large randomized clinical trials, authored several textbooks, and published hundreds of articles in the field. His decades of experience in both clinical practice and research are critical to OMT’s mission of developing the next generation of optometric tools.
Chang Yaramothu Ph.D., FAAO
Chief Technology Officer
Chang is a biomedical engineer who studies the relationship between vision dysfunction and concussions. He is passionate about using technology to deliver affordable care to underserved communities.
Tara L. Alvarez Ph.D., FAAO, FAIMBE
Chief Scientific Officer
Tara is a biomedical engineer and vision scientist who incubated OMT’s core technology in her lab at NJIT. Tara’s numerous publications in the field of neural engineering laid the foundation for OMT to automate the analysis of eye movements.
DEVELOPERS
Migle Surblyte
Software Developer
Jacquelynn Wilson
Software Developer
Jack Trowbridge
Game Developer
Connor Criscoe
Software Developer
Sean Ciccarelli
Game Developer
ADVISORY BOARD
Hans Hartmann
Operations Advisor
Hans is an operations and scaling specialist who has previously served as COO at both Oculus and Fitbit. He has held many roles throughout his prolific business career, and has been patiently guiding the founders since OMT’s inception.
Anthony Deleo
Athletics Advisor
Anthony is an Assistant Baseball Coach (Pitchers & Catchers) at D1 NJIT. An Operations Management and Economics major with extensive work in sports science and analytics, he worked in Player Development with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays prior to his work in collegiate athletics.
Matthew Tucker
Commercialization Advisor
Matt is the Chief Commercial Officer of Nightware, a wearable digital therapeutics company. His past experience at Highmark Health and Mylan affords him expertise in a variety of healthcare topics of concern to medical device companies.
Michael Gallaway O.D., FCOVD, FAAO
Optometry Advisor
Michael is an optometrist with over 30 years of experience in private practice vision therapy. He is also an Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University in Philadelphia.